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Synonyms for darkness
noun place, time that is unlit

gloom
obscurity
dusk
dark
blackness
twilight
duskiness

murk
murkiness
eclipse
shadiness
dimness
shade
nightfall

cloudiness
blackout
shadows
crepuscule
brownout
lightlessness
black

Cimmerian shade
calignosity
pitch darkness
smokiness
tenebrosity

Antonyms for darkness

daylight
morning
cognizance
sensibility
brightness

light
lightness
day
daytime
illumination

enlightening
intelligence
sense
understanding

Synonyms
noun ignorance; mystery

isolation
seclusion
secrecy

privacy
blindness
concealment

unawareness
inscrutability
denseness

Antonyms

daylight
morning
cognizance
sensibility
brightness

day
daytime
illumination
light
lightness

enlightening
intelligence
sense
understanding

Concept Thesaurus for word darkness
2. Sensation; special sensation; light; light in general
Synonyms – noun

darkness
murk
Egyptian darkness
witching hour of night
darkness that can be felt
[Midsummer Night’s Dream]
shadow
obscuration
offuscation
total eclipse
chiaroscuro (light)

blackness (dark color) [more]
dusk (dimness)
night
witching time of night
palpable obscure
“sable-vested night”
umbra
adumbration
caligation
gathering of the clouds.
noctivagation.

obscurity
Cimmerian darkness
midnight
blind man’s holiday
Erebus
[Milton].
penumbra
obumbration
extinction
shading

gloom
Stygian darkness
dead of night
darkness visible
“the jaws of darkness”
shade
sciagraphy.
obtenebration
eclipse
distribution of shade

Synonyms – verbs

be dark
dim
overshadow
obumbrate
bedim
spread a shade
spread a shadow
extinguish
doubt.

darken
tone down
eclipse
adumbrate
bedarken
cast a shadow
cast gloom
put out

obscure
lower
obfuscate
cast into the shade
cast a shade
cast a gloom
throw gloom
blow out

shade
overcast
offuscate
becloud
throw a shade
throw a shadow
spread gloom.
snuff out

Synonyms – adjectives

dark
tenebrious
caliginous
light
unilluminated (see illuminate [more]
gloomy
umbrageous
dark as pitch
noctivagant

darksome
sombrous
black (in color)
[more]
nocturnal
murky
overcast (dim)
dark as a pit
noctivagous.

darkling
pitch dark
sunless
somber
dingy
murksome
cloudy (opaque)
dark as Erebus.

obscure
pitchy
lightless (see sun
dusky
lurid
shady
darkened.
benighted

Synonyms – phrases
“brief as the lightning in the collied night” [M.N.D.]; “eldest Night and Chaos, ancestors of Nature” [P. L.]; “the blackness of the noonday night” [Longfellow]; “the prayer of Ajax was for light”
Antonyms

light

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Other adjectives related to darkness

acherontic
blae
cockshut
dark as a pit
darksome
lightless
murky
obscure
shady
sunless
thestral

aphotic
caliginous
crepuscular
dark as pitch
dingy
lurid
noctivigant
overcast
sombre
swarthy
unbrageous

benighted
cimmerian
dark
darkened
dusky
melanic
noctivigous
phaeochrous
sombrous
tenebrious
unilluminated

black
cloudy
dark as Erebus
darkling
gloomy
murksome
nocturnal
pitch
subfusc
tenebrous

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